by Eboni Boykinin – World,Afghanistan (via Policy Mic)
Online courses can be exactly what the college dropout needs to be successful — basic knowledge and mastery of otherwise lesser known skills, and just enough marketability to retrieve an entry level position. Or they maybe even could aquire the basic skills needed to bring about a revolutionary idea. In those cases, official credit for a course isn’t really necessary. What matters is that the individual learned skills that can be applied to a career, since that is why employers want their employees to have an education in the first place. Who cares what form someone got the information from, right? So for a millennial looking for a way to launch the next big thing, maybe the time and money needed to attend college isn’t necessary. And soon, maybe college won’t be necessary for anyone anymore.
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